Similar Search Results

The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688727

High skilled immigration in the international arena

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2005

This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned … level and distribution of income in the destinations. The causes and consequences of high-skilled emigration from the … perspective of the origins or sending countries are examined. Educational finance and taxing policies that encourage emigration …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003257654

Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023

also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444219

Endogenous assimilation and immigrant adjustment in longitudinal data

Beenstock, Michael (contributor); … - 2005

We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel's censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have experienced faster earnings growth between 1983 and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283052

Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894826

ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898600

Educational mismatch : are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872711

An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for immigrants in the Canadian labour market

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900881

Religiosity and migration : travel into one's self versus travel across cultures

Aleksynska, Mariya; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2011

declines with duration in the destination. Both origin and destination country characteristics, such as economic development …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307590

Social contacts and the economic performance of immigrants : a panel study of immigrants in Germany

Kanas, Agnieszka; Chiswick, Barry R.; Lippe, Tanja van der - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the effects of bonding (i.e., co-ethnic) and bridging (i.e., interethnic) ties on economic outcomes....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308811